The Sun. — London, England, 1810-09-08 00:00:00

.BERAADOTT. pit 4 , 9 M A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE CONCERNING A tf( AN "ADOTTE, A MARSHAL OF THE FRENCH 0 4\ , 8 . D PRI NCR OV PONT E COB Vo. A PTIsTE BEIINADoTTE was born on the 2611, Qt dr y' 1763 , at Pau, in Ream, in the Depart ; rr `,.,de Lower. Pyrennees. His father %.v.aS a " I r k' ed estnlisied When he «as fifteen years old, tt .s ux , s°° i l after . in the squadron commanded by , 1 0 ,..7 1 e i n , and was present . at th e battle of " t he East Indies. . e. .- 1 , 1- L e turti to Fiance, -he rose gradually in the I, "e Revoititton confribuied to his advance t„ b " kirying oceision,he.rendered signal sei y„t t. eolunct the Marquis D' At nbert. In the 1 "e North he revenged tile death of his friend fZuguet Olin the army of the Ardennes, in 1794, Iv ig n i 4 e-tigneUx under the comm a n d of Ge itlat ar eedu and Bieber , when he was a pp ointed at tl ,, i (4l3 rigade. After the battle ot. leo' us, he ot"x "L!ht rank of General of Division. At the 1 aestricht, the reduction of the fort of Wick Ltd &i t , "I .0 Mar. iiy Passage of the Rhine , in 1795, by the 'lie Saulbre and Meuse, BERNADOTTE. was el in ulockading Mayence on the Cassellside. afterwards sent with his division to the "kick IQ, I ;9U his division di'siingu'shed itself very iii twic e crossing the-Wane. The second_ was effected opposite the % illage of alte li illtd gener4,astonisiiment . it will se rve fri,,,.' b '''Petual proof of the superiority of an enter ulan o%er an adversary rendered negligent by , 4 ' l ' confidence, tli k ,"ArJorre was, opposed to the Arch-Duke il,,, u sts at etunat k, at leinengen, and at EberaCh. 4V ;si'n sustained very great oss at Wurtilatirgh. i '"''not hialbeit . present, on account of illness, tte haute, the disasters of which ased by ,the dissensions that prevailed tit, 4 he Gene r als. I- „ " I 'aliatte having required reinforcements , Ge l)7' 1141 tNADOTTE received orders, in January ittit to PrOceed to Italy, where he arrived „about of 'March. Be was engaged in the k °` the Tagliartienio. After,taking Gradisca, tiN advancc.l upon Vienna. Upon the signing of tqleinninaries of Leoben, • he. occup ie d the 1 4 1 with an army of 30,00 0 infantry an d t ) ea • i . ea et having been signed at Cainpo Formio, be i ted a PPointed Ambassador to Vienna. He pro ; I v e ', ll uPen ttiis,new mission in April, 1798. After th e n i been exposed to great dangers, he was under tst bi : e 'e , sity of quitting , the Austrian Capital ; he Iliij ne t _d to France, and was ordered to blockade . Iliat‘ Psu ill. His summons to the Commander of f'e'tes, • is well known. \lta, 17 99 • BERNADoTTE was appo inted Minister of He was dismissed by the Direaory, under she Pretext that he bad sent in his resignation, tho' h ) . I , l ao %vas never officially 'made known : BERNA- L' ll sbOtild have contradiaed this. .9n the 18th is, n `uinaire he refused to assist BUONAPARTE. The "t e r :: of his pa:ty being entirely destroyed by the tile s of that day, he privately withdrew with his ItA l4 tfr(ll Paris,. and secreted himself at Clia:eau -1'04" d country house belonging to Gen. SARRAZIN, le lgtlS from that city. ' • q„ 'lie assurances given to BERNADOTTE by th ih eral SARRAZIN, that BUONA,rART.E tOlgOt every IliC 4 that h a d passed, and was desirous of his friend, l ou r ' e returned to Paris. In March , :800, he was W - :'" t ed Commander in Chief of the Arm y of the and lie established his headsquarters at•Rennes. t"1 it At:is in comemplatton to send him out to 1 4 —s l4na, with the authority of Captain-General. i s t . 1 ,402 it Was intended to appoint him Ambassador )k i ;'' t United States. He passed the year 1803 at without any employment. 1n.1804 he was PI o m ud Commander in Chief of the Army of a t _ t "lver,, trf .l e \vas present at the 'battle of Austerlitz, that li,,i (*fl as and the campaign against the Russians in comiliande the ' 'Frenh army in Den haß when Ale Marqui4 ROMANA succeeded in em liir's4l% his troops; and [twined to Spain to defend Se tt 11 t lie campaign ofBo9..Gen. BERNADOTTE 4 4 - t et t with the Saxon troop.. He commanded at Di a,e w erp when the EXpedition•to:Walcheren took fle was fortunate enough to be eleaed Crown of Sweden, at a moment that he was at Pa ris without any employment. Rftwson TTE married Mademoiselle CLARY , the ‘‘i tit ghter of a respeaable merchant at Marseilles , b y ! 1 11 he has an only son: N i l. . he author of the - biographical ootes, , after de -o'"g many other particul.as concerning &RNA.. I , l Tel concludes with observing , " that BUON 4 if the tact be true that he haseither given 1 1 lent e i g i 4 of francs to Sweden to vied b:tiNspoTTe, has applied a maxim of politics, :which galanStd is wor, naniely —to build a'biidgs of quid f or a retreating enemy. ' A T , 3 -Eacitrtsn CORRESPONDENCE. -11 D3olo' the 3d of . August says., that the number of t't'ers in terce pted,by Spanishparties in LaLaMan- (a l a s and the other parts of the Peninsula, is very i tl 'eat • They ::tfor,l a convincing proof of the con-, - tb st " the enemy are in, and of the •disappoint -1„111 and mortification they experience from the „ u g and persevering struggle hich the true and 1, 0" Y a l Spaniards "..mainta4r. One of these letters, General Don JUAN BAPTISTE DE CASTRO, ) Thmandant General of Cordova, 'informs tWe Mi n 4 ~„M er of War of the impossibility of organizing t , lst regiment of infantry of the- line, and the, t of the horse chasseurs, on account of the ig :ratice of heir chiefs, the badtivss of their otti i`tirs, and ti i n fidany of the soldiers, which . are eti e drvgs and 'rinse rhat the insurgents have rept:t •Another from Baron DE ALCH AL Y, who corn ill4l'db a regimeA of light infantry in (Granada, bit.erly that his corps still remains a ske *(lll. betaittie he r-ceiVes no pay, and is not reim 6p,Trged fur the sums he has expended out of his •• "n pocket' in the formation of this corps. ' At a General Court Martial held at Chelmsford, on the 23d July, t 810, and continue by adjourn the 26111, of the's-me nion;4, Lieu ant -Solomon:Cheek, 4.01 e Derbys h ire regimen or mi litia,,w:is Smitgaed upon the-undertneutionedchargt s, • '6 tat. For absenting himself withiut leave from. duty and parade at Chetmstord Barracks, on Saturday, June -, he 3ort , . Sunday, luty the tat, and on Monday, July the ad, If to." For disobedience of orders, and acting in contempt of . the authority of his Commanding Officer; Lieut.-Col. Hal ton-, in sci absenting himself frOm, the regiment, he having ap plied for leave of absence, and been refused by his said Com manding Officer." The Court-Martial found the Prisoner Guilty of both, the cjtarges preferred against him, and ad judged him to be dismissed from the Derbyshire re giment of militia which sentence his Majesty .hag been pleased to confirm. The following is the extract of a letter from Paris, dated 31st 'August :—' 4 Fouche, once the terror of France, 'is now a close prisoner at Marseilles. He was arrested at Aix, which was his Senaiorerie." It is said that the Ex-Empress is implicated in Fouche's tall, as that Lady bad been on a visa to the disgraced Minister at. Ai x, 1 - 1:s appointment to the government of Rome was a farce; as, according to an Imperial Decree ot J uly last, the Governors of Rome and Florence were to be Princes of the Blood. The Boulogne flotilla appear to be once more in partial motion. The following is an extraEt of a letter upon this subject received by yesterday's post , DOVER, Surr„a.—" Twenty sail of NAPOLEON'S grand fleet have made their esear out of Botatogne harbotir, and the remainder are equipped and quite ready for sea. I stated to you on Sunday that a great - firing had been !lewd on the opposite coast, it proceeLied•troin oar ships who were trying to in tercept them,', but by. keeping so close in with the. shore, and being rotated by the range of batteries on the bills, only `one was destroyed by the Pt4argus sloop of . war. " The orders which our,s‘hips have,received not to leave their station, unless, by a special order from Captain DIGIIY, of the Theban appointed Commo dore, makes it evident that th:flotilla is expeded to slip out should an opportunity suit. " The following sloops of war are lying off Bou logne, watch.ng the enemy's motions :-I'heban, Rolla,' Fly, Podargus, Cordelia „ Castilian, Rinaldo, a Ui1414011 10 The following words were omitted in the Spanish Document for convoking the Cortes, which we in serted yesterday. The sentence to which we allude should have stood as follows : " Afer the meeting of the Cortes, and until they shall appoint, name, and install a new Government, or co,dirm that' which is now estalilished to govern the nation in future, the Regency shall continue in the exercise of the executive power in the fulness that belongs to my Sovereign authority.". We mentioned yesterday the death of Mr. PAYNE, in consequence of the duel which took place the preceding day between hint and Captain CLARKE.— The tollow,ing particulars are given respecting the occasion of this melancholy event :—Mr. PAYNE was the younger son of the late RENa PAYNE, Esq. and he left him his fortune, to the amount of 14,0001. a year. In that settlement, by t bich the 'whole goes now to the.eldest son of GEORGE PAYNE, ex cept 500 k. a- year to his Widow, and 10,01)01. to. his younger children. Mr. PAYNE has lett four Oil- . dren by his amiable wife, who was A Miss GRAY. The cause of the fatal duel is truly melancholy .= The challenge took plac4, indeed , ten day s a g o, at Scarborough, but the quarrel was of a more 'distant date. The orphan daughter ,of the late Dr. CLARKE, Of Newcastle, was- the friend of Mrs. PAYNE, and a visitor in the family. An unfortunate attachment took place between Mt. PAYNE and Miss CLARKE, and transpired. which 'the irritated feelings of the brother forced him fo resent. Every , means were tried.by Mr. JOHN PAY NE,' the elder, ,brother of the .deceased, to avert tile catastrophe, but in vain. Al r. GEORGE PAYNE Was most exemplsry in all-his con dna through life, except in this fatal attachment. He was a most liberal and a most amiable man. He had whispered to his second, Mr. ABBOTT, that lie shouki not \ swum Mr. CLARKE s fire but the first shot was tuOrtal. The Privy Council sat at the Council .otfice, Whitehall, on Thursday, from twelve o'clock till past six, upon the examination of three sailors be longing to the Cumberland East Indiaman, who are charged, with the wilful murder, of a Chinaman at Canton.—We understand a Chinaman was killed in an affray at Canton,, riginating in a dispute respect ing the goodness of some dollars ; and the Captain of the Cumberland was obliged to enter into dbond before he was allowed to sail from Canton, that the business should be investigated on his return to Eng land, and the perpetrators punished if chscovered.— On the artivarof the Cumberland at Sheerness, the Captain ordered the prisoners into irons, and put them on board the Admiral's flag-ship, where they rerhained till lag Sunday, when t he'Captain, having 'represented the case to the Privy Council, Rivet; and Adkins, two 'Bow-street Otficeis, were dis patched to bring them to London. The Council on Thursday was very, fully attended ; among those present were Earl Camden (ihe Lord Presidetn),,the 'Chanceßor of the Exchequer, the Lord Chief Baron Macdonald, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Yorke ' &c. &c. The witnesses examine 3 were, the Chief Mate, 'the Cap .tain'sSteward, the Captain's Cook, and the Butcher; the latter was brought before the Council' front Tothill-fields Bridewell, he having 'been commhted there in consequence of his having, in a private in vestigation, refused to give evidence. Qtt Thursday he apologized to the Council, attributing his 'con duct to excess of liquor. The prisoners were com mitted to the House of Correctu-n fOr further exa mination. _ Lord Mt NTO continued at Madras at the date of the latest accounts from that Presidency, w hich reach to the beginuing_of April : The Modestelad been dispatched to Calcutta tor 'General HEWITT, who, it IA as undetstood, was to take the command of the Maras army, until the arcival .ot SirSAmutiL AUCH• MUTY front England. Lord M NTO was expected to return 10 Bengal immediately on General HEAVITT'S taking the CiOnimaud at Fort St. George, an event which was likely to bappen in a few days:. C I ARACCAS. VENEZUELA, !UNE 29. LECAT. CONDUCT OF VENEZUELA WITH . RESPECT TO THE REGENCY OF sPAIN: There always e n xists among the wicked an endea vour to destroy the laws, Which reeders it necessary o explain 'them teethe terwary, to reclaim the de tided, and to infortn the ignorant, in order that malignity may not obtain -a triumph. Attempts are incessantly making ao induce us to acknowledge the intruding Goverument of the Regency, and theieby violate the oa , b-w hien. we took,' and the obedience we owe to our lost D. Fereinend the Seventh, and the fundamental laws of the Crown e ' In the king dOms of Spain, from time immemorial, there has existed a venerable law, .which regulates and ordains the mode of supplying the monarchy when the King is not in a condition to exercise the royal lug crions. It is contained in the Partidas of that wise King, Aiphonso but it was not first established in his glorious reign, for there had previously existed, from a period very remote, the obligation at such a conjuncture upon the Nobles of the kingdom, the Prelates, men of properly, and othet gold, men at the heads of towns and cities, to assemble in a Cortes, ,and to eled aCouncil of Regency; whiCh should. administer the internal affairs 'of the•,king dom We are eatillid to the sarrie law, and toe puuishment which it it7iids ought to fall upon thoie who would break it. Those ate by law , ueuounced traitors who refuse to assemble at the general Con gress of the Cortes, to appoint a successor td the Royal Authority. Now, if this neglect of attending the Cortes on such an occasion is declared ireason, what shall-we say 'of those who thus, disreearding a solemn law, arrogate to themselves the Artie of a Regency, exercise the funceions' of Majesty, and unjustly investing themselves with the authority belonging to the Monarch, exact from tai that .ho mage which is due to the Royal Petson of Ferdi nand VII. alone I The 3d. Law, Tt. lb, Partidas ii. and the'36th Law, Tit. 34, Partidas vii. which have been hitherto considered fundamental laws of the Monarchy of Spain, are those of which Venezuela Claims the benefit, as.an integral part of that Monarchy. li is upon that authority that this Supreme Junta have resulved to ,establish . a new Provisional Tribunal' for the PubLie.security. The motives of our condutt and our proceedingS have long be . en known toe aids the various Corms of Goverment which secceeded each other in Spin, without the direct or int 'plied assent of the Americans. These lawi in contestibly prove that those who would establish a Regency without the meeting and a pp robatioft of the Cortes, 'are traitors to the King and to their country. It is evident that the authority which we have refused to acknowledge, besides being established contrary to an 'express' clecla ration of the law, had against it, the presumption of its vicious Origin, namely, the Central' Junta, which was itselt tllegat and monstrous, as well as pernicious, and detested by the nation. The in terests of the King and of the kingdom arc those which ought to be guarded inviolably, but.when the different accounts which hate been given of the dsl (event representative bodies who have assumed the sovereignty in Spain are considered, every one may judge whether, since America has been declared an integral part of the Spanish 'nation*, she is not Ca inibte to watch her interests, and those of the King, without exposing both to an authority in itself ille gal, and which is exposed to the power or the per nicious influence of France ? It appears, then, that thoie who'submit to the Regency formed contrary to express law, if they cannot tie called traitors, must lie under the suspicion of not having attended to the true interests of the King, and the general good of the elation, which they could not have done, ex cepting as has been done in Venezuela, by a new retires. of all the Provinces. Can it .be pos sible that we, who , have decidedly supported the established Constitutional Laws, can be called less faithful than those who have direeilyadted in oppo sition to them ? Can any one relieve us frdm the oattr which we have taken to the Spanish Constitu tion, against which the establiShnient of the Re gency which we have disowned (tiredly militates ? If Coro has . sufficient authority to relieve us from our oath; let it be manifested with the same publi city which distinguiehed ourproceediegs, and then our designs may be lawfully opposed. THE THEATRE.-.--The popular Opera of Inkle and Yarico ‘A as last night represented at the Haymarket Theatre, for the benefit of Mrs. GIBBS. Islr. C. KEMBLE' performed the part of Inkle, for the first time, and it is barely 'justice to him to say tbat he ,is the best representative ,of it that has yet appear ed. He was much applauded. A Lady, who, we understand, is a Mrs. LOWE, made her first appear mice in the part of Nurcisti. Her powers; were' obviously restrained by •the diffidence natural to a young and ingenuous mind, in so novel a situation ; but she, notwithstanding, -displayed evident marks of good sense and feeling, with that charm of sim plicity which has too long been. a stranger to the stage. There was a peculiar, yet,unatiected distinct ness in her aiticulation. Her person is pleasing,' and her features interesting. She possesses a good voice, and her singing as recommended by the simplicity which appeared in her acting:. She was very well received. INcLenosi, who had just arriv-, ' , ed from Ireland, came for Ward with friendly zeal on the.occasion, and exerted his vocal powers with great success. The house war very well at tended.• SAMPFORD GHOST.—The Taunton Courier, re ceived yesterday, contains the following notice " The exposure of the proceedings at Sampford would have been presented in the present' Numbe', had we not received a letter from a very respectable friend at 'Morton, entreating us to postpone one week longer, our 'promised remarks, as he Will then have, as he states, the most indisputable evi ciel,ce ,of the very gross deception that has been practised.' We realty' want no more evidence ; the imposture is as clear as the sun at noon ; and the only extraordinary circumstance conneaed :with the atrait is, that so many have been puzzled on the occasion. In conformity, lowever,.to the wishes of our ~correspondent, the subjea shall stand over until next week, and we hOpe then so effectually to lay the Ghost, that our ,readers, may be no further troubled with its intrusion, ESCAPE, OF ROBEET , R Daniel Ar:4 underwent another tern +y, ;it Marlb-rough-street Oz-hci, .b I.rt: CONN 4NT, Esq. Mr. MELLISH, the Some other MagivrateS Die clepositi6n'S rt ad over, 4 which ;he loilov. ing is,an abora,; Michael M.Narnara, a yonTh about, oixtr . en, who • WAS a prisoner in t hat. part ,w here R6bett rts was confined, sated, that after lireakAtu," on the . 27th. of August, Roberts 'was walking in the g.e . dcn with Daniel Aris, 'and also in the passage of the Orison, for some 'hue. Ark offered to ! - en a .totile of wine that a -bell would tieg in the ie.iso. within a quarter of an hour„ , and Roberts took Winsell, one of the turnkeys, locked up on Mon day, the 27th, after this betting betweee D. Ark and Roberts, and the witness was awoke ent of his sleep by talking in the p3,..sage, near Roberts's cell. He had . preteously heard the following i.rm, eisation between Daniel Aris and Roberts. The former said, " Roberts !" calling him gently, and the other an swered. 4ris then said, "Be sure to be awake at my halloo." Roberts replied, he would . to careful of that, and continued—" Be sure to come t for you know what risk. Lshall run if you-do not.' D. Aria replied, ‘,‘ Never fear me, you know I always stick to what I say." Witness was awok e some time after wards, and tte heard D. Aris', voice again in the pie:- sage ; soon after which the clock -truck' one, which Was supposed to have been about t , t.! time of the • escape,. On the turnkey finding the gates open' in the morning, lie observed - , there would be a pry-cious row ; and witness informed biro it WaS .his young Master who had left them open. •An. investigation of what witness had said took place b-tore Gover nor Aris in the presence of the. prisoner, and the latter said it was a d—d lie, and locked ,witre'ss up in the gallery for so challenging him. D. Aris charged witness with having been put up to, the false accusation by the Frenchman .(meaning one of the prisoners). Governor Aris wished Roberts good-night, when ;he was locked up, and Witt est had never seen him at the cells at locking up time before. - Amos, who married one of Mr. Aris's daughters, staled, that th i e Governor frequently vvtlit round to lock up wish him, but he often omitted ;s do so. The witness had some converswion with .) Aris, relative to what MtNarnata had said, and he' denied it with Warmth. D. Aris had the particular care of that part of the visor) in which Robe' is was locked up. The gates through which the two pri soners escaped must have been unlOcked by (Ale, of of them ; but With respe.l to the outer gate, a man of the name of Ru,sjil alone kept she Aris 'Slept •in the Governor's house, and , he had the means of taking the prisoners through the house, if he thought proper. D. Aris • used to walk in thi . t.. garden with Rob,irts, and he was a jod deal with him. Witness had told him he paid too great re 'sped to Roberts, which was the observation of others, as he always staid a long while with hno when he had occasion to carry any thing to There was no other prisoner pertWtted,the ind.,l - of. walking in the garden but Roberts,' and the Governor knew of these favours'. Samuel' Winsell, a turnkey under D. Aris, in that part of the prison where Roberts was con6 n ed, deposed, that he iSsisted in locking up on th 'even ing of the 27th of August,._ and that the ,Govel n o r and D. Arts 'were present ; and alter Roberts had • been shut in, the Governor tapped at his door, and . wished him good -night.•, Witness foufid. ail tire gates of the passage open in the morning, arid he queStiOned the youth, M.‘l\lamara, to tell if he • knew who had been there, and he observed there would be a precious row. iVl•Namara informed Winsell that his young . master, D.' Ails had been there, as he had heard him in the night Wit ness gave information to Mr. Hasell, the Clerk,: ;Ina communicated 'what the boy M'Namara, had in formed him, which led to an examination berore the GOvernor. ' In some, conver.ation wittreis had with D. Aris, the latter said M‘Namara had been brawling to his father... Mr..Hasell, the Prison Clerk, seated, that Roberts Was brought in custody to the ..priSon oh the 15th of August,, arid escaped on the 27th. Witness had been informed by Paull, one of the watchmen, that the SWELL (meaning R , ibeits) had asked !ruin to sit up with him to pass away isotne tedious hours. He said that D..Aris had sat up with him ; but wit ness cautioned the turnkey riot to do so, whatever Daniel Aris might think pro f er to do. Governor Aris frequently conversed with -Roberts, and. ire went. out in Iris (Roberts's) chaise, on the 18th of August. Paull, the watchman, had stated'to wit—, ness that it was not of much use to lock up the - prisoners 'when the . turnkeys were going backward and. forward though the gates after such locking up. All the Aris's had keys ;' and'there Were two bro-' thers of. D. Aris omthe books, Thomas and.Cha.les, the latter of whom, had -235. a' week, but he had not done any duty in the prison for two years. These were the only deposituinsi ar Mirlborough street.Office. There were four other, persons, pri soners in Coldbath-fields, who gave evidence betore the Committee, but their; testimony went , only or corroboration of the intimacy which subsisted be twixt the Aris's and Robert;. , The Magistrate informed the prisoner, that his duty "was.to commit him for felonicusiyaiding and abetting in the escape of Roberts and Harper, and Ire direded'a warrant of coutmittal .to be made out ac cordingly. The prisoner was committed for trial, but he will be brought up again. CO).ONEL DOWNIE'S THIRD SALE OP SPANISH SHEEP.—Th . ursday morning 33 Paular rams, and 95 Paular ewes of different ages,. a further part' of he. Sheep presented by the Supreme 'Regency of Spain to Colonel Downie, from the confiscated flock of the Prince of Peace 'which - was 'shipped . Lisbon on the 14th of July last, were sold at ton, by Mr. Daniel Smith. The 33 'rams produced 4801. 75. '6d.5 or 141. 1 ts..9d. nearly each, on the 'average. - 71:11e 95 ewes produced 13141. 12c.,; or , 131-. 16s. 3d. each,' on the averake: the total amount of the sale being 17941.-19 s. 6d. Sir Jol;n , Sinclair, the Honourably Mr. Burrell, John. Mai'- iat d, Esq.' and many agriculturists of distinction were present. • 0 1 !tg ol' i oil ( ' ti° , of ,l'' 5 1A 1 00' par j I